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The London and North Western Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial outside Euston station in London, England. The memorial was designed by Reginald Wynn Owen and commemorates employees of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) who were killed in the First World War. Over 37,000 LNWR employees left to fight in the war, of whom 3,719 were killed. The memorial cost £12,500 and consists of a single obelisk, 13 metres (43 feet) tall, on a pedestal. At the top, on each side, is a cross in relief and a bronze wreath. At each corner of the base is a statue of a military figure—an artilleryman, an infantryman, a sailor, and an airman—each larger than life-size. Field Marshal Earl Haig unveiled the memorial on 21 October 1921, accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury; more than 8,000 people attended the ceremony. The memorial and two entrance lodges are all that remain of the former Euston station complex, as it was rebuilt in the 1960s. The memorial is a Grade II* listed building. (Full article...)
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![Paul Taylor in Episodes](http://178.128.105.246/cars-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Portrait_of_Paul_Taylor%2C_in_Episodes%2C_New_York_City_Ballet_LCCN2004663616_%28border_removed%29.jpg/121px-Portrait_of_Paul_Taylor%2C_in_Episodes%2C_New_York_City_Ballet_LCCN2004663616_%28border_removed%29.jpg)
- ... that George Balanchine said that a solo in his ballet Episodes (pictured) should evoke the image of a fly in a glass of milk?
- ... that L. J. Potts translated the Poetics as Aristotle on the Art of Fiction, a title accused of "[narrowing] dangerously the wide gap between Aristotle and ourselves", but later called "creative genius"?
- ... that Atlanta's "quicker picker-upper" aired martial arts movies, professional wrestling, jazz music, and Japanese-language programming?
- ... that despite published scholarship to the contrary, Andrew Planta neither received a doctorate nor taught mathematics at Erlangen?
- ... that in November 2022, Leicester City Council used the Food Act 1984 in combination with a royal charter of 1199 to levy a charge on the organisers of two Christmas light switching-on events?
- ... that after Domen Križaj from Slovenia was a prize winner in the singing competition Neue Stimmen, he moved to the Oper Frankfurt where he appeared as Massenet's Albert and Mozart's Papageno?
- ... that Manny's Deli in Chicago received national recognition for its popularity among politicians, including Barack Obama?
- ... that Claude C. Robinson was supposed to pick the star-of-the-game, but he left early when struck in the head by a hockey puck?
In the news
- Croatia adopts the euro and joins the Schengen Area.
- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (pictured) dies at the age of 95.
- Brazilian footballer Pelé dies at the age of 82.
- A winter storm causes record-breaking low temperatures and leaves more than 100 people dead across North America.
- Pushpa Kamal Dahal becomes Prime Minister of Nepal after the general election.
On this day
- 1066 – Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon monarch before the Norman Conquest, was crowned King of England.
- 1322 – Stefan Dečanski was crowned King of Serbia, succeeding his half-brother Stefan Konstantin, whom he later defeated in battle.
- 1839 – The worst storm to impact Ireland in 300 years damaged or destroyed more than 20 per cent of houses in Dublin with 100-knot (190 km/h) winds.
- 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori (pictured) opened her first school and day-care centre for working-class children in Rome, employing a philosophy of education that now bears her name.
- 1994 – Two-time American Olympic figure-skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan was hit on the leg with a police baton by an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.
- Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (b. 1587)
- Jedediah Smith (b. 1799)
- Alan Wiggins (d. 1991)
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There are fifteen interrelated families of alismatid monocots, a group of flowering plants named after their largest order, Alismatales. Like other monocots, they have a single embryonic leaf (cotyledon) in most of their seeds, and are generally characterized by leaves with parallel veins, scattered vascular systems, flowers with parts in groups of three or multiples of three, and roots that can develop in more than one place along the stems. The alismatids were the first species to diverge from the other monocots, occurring during the Cretaceous period. Like the earliest monocots, many of them are aquatic, and some grow completely submerged. Apart from the sweet-flag family of wetland plants, which form the order Acorales (species pictured), all alismatid families are in Alismatales. (Full list...)
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Bay Area Rapid Transit is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. It serves fifty stations along six routes on 131 miles (211 kilometers) of rapid transit lines, including a spur line to Antioch that uses diesel multiple unit trains, and an automated guideway transit line to Oakland International Airport. The system had 26,026,800 passengers in 2021. This photograph, captured by a line-scan camera using strip photography, shows the length of a nine-car Bay Area Rapid Transit train comprising four C1 cars and five B2 cars. Photograph credit: Daniel Lawrence Lu
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